Elk Grove, CA, USA
6 bright star like objects moving fast in the night sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-10
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-elk-grove-ca-2013-8d62cc
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
July 2013 was a busy month for Elk Grove, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 46 reports logged in Elk Grove, CA.
- This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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